Alabama Jazz Hall Of Fame Student Band Festival Set For April

BIRMINGHAM, AL - The Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame has scheduled its 16th annual Student Jazz Band Festival for April 5-7. The event is usually held at the Carver Theater, but because of the current Carver renovation project, this year's event will be held at Birmingham-Southern College's 900-seat Munger Hall Auditorium.

At this event there will be performances from college, high school and middle school jazz bands which will highlight both vocalists and players. The goal of the event each year is to provide a wider variety of entry points for attendees to understand and appreciate jazz and its heritage. It also provides a much-needed platform for student jazz musicians to perform in front of an audience. Also, the festival provides opportunity to hear up and coming jazz talent from which college and university band directors recruit future players each year. Numerous student performers have gone on to receive full scholarships with colleges and universities as a result of performing at the annual AJHoF event in the past.

In addition to live performances, there will be a workshop for jazz students on Saturday, April 7th at 1:15 pm.

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"I am so excited to be able to continue on with this prodigious tradition of bringing jazz bands together for fantastic performances," said Dr. Leah Tucker, executive director of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. "The festival is a total immersion of camaraderie and educational pursuits."

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